Sunday, February 3, 2013

Alibi Anti-Semitism of the Progressive Left

It is a moral scandal that some few decades after the unmeasurable catastrophe that overtook the Jewish people in Europe, these anti-Semitic themes and ruses are once again respectable; respectable not just down there with the thugs but pervasively also within polite society, and within the perimeters of a self-flattering liberal and left opinion. It is a bleak lesson to all but those unwilling to see. The message of ‘never again’ has already proved to have been too sanguine. Genocides still occur. We now know, as well, that should a new calamity ever befall the Jewish people, there will be, again, not only the direct architects and executants but also those who collaborate, who collude, who look away and find the words to go with doing so. Some of these, dismayingly, shamefully, will be of the left.

This is not a hopeful conclusion, but it is a necessary one. The best of hope in politics must always be allied to a truthful realism. We need to know what we are up against.

By this point one would have to be in full on denial not to recognize that outside of political Islam the foremost racist political movement in the west today is the allegedly "anti-racist" progressive movement. The forms of racism coming out of today's left tend to be passive-aggressive in nature. While the Jewish state has replaced the Jewish people as the legitimate target of malice leading to violence and, perhaps, genocide, their contempt for Arab people, and people "of color," more generally, takes the form of thinking them so lowly as to be beneath moral responsibility for either word or deed. This is what Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has dubbed "humanitarian racism" and it is a distinctly left-wing phenomenon.

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And of course, one likely couldn't even bring this issue up in a real way at certain left wing venues, as one would almost certainly be banned as, somewhat hilariously, a 'racist,' themselves.

I'll disagree that the progressive movement is "the most" racist movement outside of Political Islam (certain quarters of the right, unfortunately, still have quite a bit of old-fashioned ugly-as-opposed-to-humanitarian-racism racism in their ranks) today, but that's almost beside the point when I think about it. The main thing is that this strain of racism is indeed very much alive and kicking, right in there amongst the self-proclaimed 'anti-racists'...

Well, the thing about "right-wing" racism, to the extent that it still exists, is that the right can't say "boo" without being accused of racism while the "left-wing" can be as racist as it pleases without any blow-back whatsoever.

This is why I find left-wing racism to be so much more egregious than right-wing racism, particularly given the fact that the hypocritical left claims to be "anti-racist."

The truth is that for most people on the left charges of racism are basically used as a political cudgel with which to beat up on those who may disagree on policy issues. It's highly immoral, in fact, but this is what they do.

As for the Arab-Israel conflict, the left is constantly calling Israel a racist state while entirely ignoring the far more virulent and ugly genocidal racism coming out of the Arab and Muslim majority population in the Middle East. Meanwhile racist "progressive Zionists" single out their fellow Jews in Israel for the charge of racism, but limit those charges to Jews that they do not like.

The whole thing is insidious, really.

I am not on the right-wing when it comes to the issues, but the left is hypocritical and revolting. As a movement they are also the enemies of Israel who tend to side with the Jihadis and the ayatollahs and the mullahs against the Jews.

btw, I take it you noticed that progressive-left Jewish anti-Semite, David Harris Gershon, had another smear piece up demonizing Israel and throwing red meat to his fellow anti-Zionists.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish